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Teachers: This section is for you!

Enchanted Circle Theater is dedicated to developing and providing resources for teachers to help them integrate theater arts into their teaching to engage their students in memorable learning experiences.

“I looked out at my students as we were reading from their textbooks and saw them glaze over, and I thought to myself… ‘What would Enchanted Circle do?’ So, I asked for 5 volunteers to join me at the front of the class to act out what happens to molecules as they get heated.  All of their hands went up! I talked them through the process of transformation and the five students vibrated as molecules, slowly at first, and then with increased intensity as their temperature’s rose. This process of embodying the scientific process took all of 5 minutes, and the class was riveted.”  
~ 5th grade teacher, Northampton, MA

In addition to our professional development programs for teachers, ECT offers the following resources:

Arts-Integrated Theater Games for the Classroom:  On a regular basis, we will post a different “road-tested” arts integrated theater game, written specifically for classroom teachers by Priscilla Kane Hellweg. These games are readily adaptable to all classroom spaces, all grades, and include facilitation instructions, learning objectives, and suggested curricular adaptations or variations.  These games are an excellent technique for developing social/emotion learning skills in a structured and engaging format. Check ‘em out!

Arts-Integrated Curricular Activity:  We'll also post a new arts-integrated curricular activity, developed by ECT and written specifically for classroom teachers.  Projects may include:  Weather Instruments, Fractions, Science of Sound, Geometry, Animal Adaptations, The Civil War, Letters from the American Revolution, etc.

ECT Creative Education Products for sale:
  1.  Available now!: Musings: Instrumental and Instructional World Music – Recorded at Northfire Studios, Musings is an educational cd produced by Enchanted Circle Theater.
    Tracy Vernon, Aimee Gelinas, Val Heron-Duranti, and Demse Zullo perform five rhythms from West Africa, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as well as one original composition for relaxation. Instructions for playing three of the traditional rhythms on drums are also included.
  2. Sojourner’s Truth CD and Companion Book- Premiering Fall 2011 - we will offer a fully produced audio performance of our acclaimed theatrical concert, Sojourner’s Truth: “I will shake every place I go to” for classroom use.  Students can read along with the actors as they perform the extraordinary life Sojourner Truth, a freed slave and women’s rights advocate who became one of the most powerful speakers of the 20th Century.  

Grant writing support:
ECT regularly works with teachers, principals and parents to write grants for schools to bring ECT in for arts integration programs.  Please contact Rachel for more information.

Curriculum Development:
Contact Priscilla if you have a new arts integrated curricular project in mind that you’d like support with, or if you’d like to bring together a team of teachers for a Curriculum Development Learning Circle!

Arts Advocacy:
Contact Priscilla if you’d like to create an Arts Advocacy Committee at your school or agency to develop an infrastructure for arts integration at your school and build understanding of  the impact of learning through and with the arts!